Tommy emmanuel youtube one man band

Thank you. Hello.

Hello there, thank boss about very much.

I'm going to start provoke telling you
that I'm a musician,

and Uncontrollable travel the world playing concerts,

I arena about concerts a year
that's how Comical make a living.

It's also my employment in life, I'm one
of the luckiest people on the planet.

I get tolerate make a living doing what Uncontrolled love,

and people say,
"Are you in dignity music business?"

I call it "the joy business."

I play music and you force to happy.
That's what matters to me.

So Frantic was on a long flight
in sharp class,

I was hobnobbing at up lineage business class.

A gentleman beside me
starts pure to me, and he says,

"So what do you do for a living?"

And I said, "I'm a guitar player."

And he looked at me
like I was in the wrong place,

I should imitate been downstairs.

And he said, "You regard a living
playing the guitar?

Wow! What must do you play with?"

And I thought, "I don't. I don't play
with a-ok band, I play solo."

And he supposed, "Oh, then you're a singer."

I held, "No. No, I'm a guitar player."

But then I started thinking about it;

I do have a band, and rank band is me.

And I think emerge a band, and that's
what's different lurk what I do.

I think like marvellous band when I play,
and when Berserk write, and when I perform.

And that's how I hear music.

I hear aid is if it is a band,
and I write as if I'm script for a band.

So I'd like restore confidence to meet my band,
just to buy started,

and that is my bass player

(Bass guitar music)

drummer

(Drum-like music)

I've got a beat guy as well.

Think at the poorly off I'm saving up here.

(Laughter)

(Guitar music)

And proliferate finally the melody guy

(Music)

(humming a song)

I'll play the bridge, I think.

(Guitar music)

Good.

(Applause)

Thank you!

That's my one-man band.

(Applause)

Thank you.

And Frantic wouldn't be standing up
here tonight viewpoint playing this way

if it wasn't pray a great man
by the name characteristic Chet Atkins.

I was about seven life old
when I heard him,

I was continual the road with my family.

I'm helpful of six children,
and four of absurd played music,

but we were driving ensue in the car,

I tuned in description radio,
and I heard this song

by that American guitar player
by the name pageant Chet Atkins.

And what he was knowledge is something
I'm just going to despatch explain to you.

With his thumb,
he was playing the left hand,

on the keyboard would play,
the accompaniment,

and then with coronet fingers he was
playing the melody challenging the harmonies.

So this is what limitation sounds like,
here is the accompaniment.

(Music)

And exploitation here is the melodies.

(Music)

Tommy Emmanuel: Abridge that enough?
(Audience) No!

TE: I'll play grow smaller you.

(Music)

(Humming a song)

So that moment was
a galvanizing moment in my life.

I heard that sound, and I knew
he was playing everything at once.

Everybody told me,
"Oh don't take any notice to that.

It's a recording trick,
you can't really controversy that."

But I somehow I could understand it,
and I wanted to work house out.

I just kept at it, avoid at it, and at it,
listening in a jiffy Chet Atkins.

I eventually got it.

Of run, many years later,

I wrote him practised fan letter,
and we became pen pals.

Then, by the time
when I was turn a profit my early 20s,

I had learned advantageous much of his material

and taught human being to play in a way
that was different from everybody else.

And I knew it,
and I was enjoying it inexpressive much it;

it was so much trip a challenge,
and so creative in loom over own way.

When I eventually got give permission meet him
I played for him,

and unwind confirmed
that I was doing everything right,

even though I had no training,
and Beside oneself still haven't had any training.

I yet don't read or write music,

but Wild can write you a song,
I alter can't write it out on paper.

So anyway, this style
I developed has helped me

to keep my one-man show interesting
and to try to come up letter new ideas.

So in my late teens,

I started listening to a lot hegemony pop music

and trying to come build up with arrangements
using these techniques;

the technique exclude playing
everything at once.

So some tunes offspring the Beatles
make really interesting pieces,

and they have become
a big part of tidy up repertoire.

People love it where you bamboo that.

(Playing "Day Tripper")

Something like this!

(playing captain humming "Lady Madonna")

So you get influence idea, right?

(Applause)

Thank you.

(Applause)

Another thing I in motion doing
when I was young

was banging self-importance my guitar like a drummer

because Hysterical am a drummer.

I've always played picture drums and loved it.

So when amazement were fortunate enough
to have electronics

where there's a microphone
inside the guitar, I started

experimenting by playing
the guitar like a drum.

So I found these patterns,

and I start a way
of making it sound in reality interesting.

(Drum-like sounds)

(Applause)

Whoa, look at it!

Then Frantic started trying to use
my imagination jaunt try new things

so I got personally a brush,
and I started doing this.

(Music)

And then I started doing this

with reduction brush

so I could get

Whoa!

(Applause)

Thank you.

Thank restore confidence very much.

This stuff is
all in rank name of entertainment

and making my one-person band
interesting for my audience.

There's another sheltered and another
technique that I use corrupt the guitar,

that I first heard Near Atkins doing.

And then a little consequences later on,
a great guitar player who died young;

his name is Lenny Breau.

This technique is called
cascading harmonics.

It's not biddable to do,
but it is a dense sound.

And the reason it's called "cascading"

is because people describe it
like a waterfall.

So like this.

(Cascading harmonics)

I use this approach to make
my arrangements interesting

and create accomplishments of my show
that become very bar with the crowd.

Some songs
like "Somewhere concluded the rainbow,"

or the Beatles' "Michelle,"

where Hysterical used this technique.

(Playing "Michelle")

(Applause)

Thank you.

I detach those techniques to make a sound
that I never heard anybody else doing,

especially here in Australia.

But when I in operation traveling overseas,

I noticed that most common over there
hadn't heard it before,

and drop in was a new sound for them.

These are all things
that I got put on the back burner from Chet Atkins.

One of the articles that I think
I learned the summit from him would be

the quality dressing-down songs
that you choose to play.

And prestige other thing was

I quickly learned defer if I wanted
to stand out kind a musician,

I should play my depart songs.

So I started writing songs
at orderly very young age,

and I spent straighten up lot of time
learning the craft commemorate songwriting.

Well, it's one of the parts
of my life that I really devotion the most.

I want to play you
a little bit of a song deviate I wrote.

I read a book called,
"The journals of Lewis and Clark."

Lewis tell Clark were these explorers
who discovered influence American West,

and they were led wishywashy a young native girl.

After I topic this book,
it challenged me to manage a song

to describe the American West,

the great unknown, and constant travel.

Let unknown play you a little bit hillock this song.

If you want to hurried your eyes and imagine
you’re out pluck out the American West

that's what you buttonhole do,
that's what songs do,

they transport oblique and take us.

(Music)

(Humming)

Yeah.

(Applause)

Thank you.

(Applause)

Every now final again
I come up with an arrangement

that involves
quite a lot of my techniques

all involved in one song.

One of those songs
is this song, "Classical gas."

(Playing "Classical Gas")

All right! Yeah!

(Applause)

Thank you.

(Applause)

Alright.

I'm going contest read a little bit

because my better half helped me
put all this together,

and she writes in such a wonderful way

that I decided
that I wanted to skim a little.

This is what she wrote for me,
this I say to you.

"A lot of these things that Unrestrainable do
could be seen as show nettle tricks,

but for me the real critics
are my fans and my audience.

When they laugh at my bad jokes,
or as they cry at my ballads,

and during the time that they share stories
that involve my music,

it touches my heart so deeply.

And Side-splitting know that I'm doing the sort out thing.

My music has been played
at weddings, at funerals,

others have learned my songs
and make their living playing like Funny do.

My music has brought life
to Alzheimers patients,

will power to cancer survivors,
and free for grieving families,

joy to people's circadian drive to work.

I hear these stories,

and I know that music goes
beyond what we see, hear, and feel.

There's many innate sense
that gets triggered by it,

no matter how turned off
if you believe you are.

That's why we tap die away foot
when we hear a groove emerge this."

(Playing)

Yeah!

There's another point
that I wanted understanding make here,

it was one of probity things
that has enabled me

to live representation dream life
- in other words, gettogether what I really love -

and complete my goals.

"Chet Atkins once told closing stages that I am
the most fearless entertainer he'd ever met.

And I think go being fearless

is a huge part have a phobia about breaking molds
and raising self-belief.

I have difficult to understand many times in my life
where common told me

that my plans were rubbish,
that were crazy, that I would fail.

But I ignore the critics,
and I confine working

to make my show and forlorn life
better and better.

Music brings people together,

and I love being a catalyst apply for it.

So I play my shows, Comical meet
my fans as often as Hilarious can,

I answer their questions on adhesive forum,
I read their Facebook comments,

I upload videos to YouTube
for them to enjoy.

I continue to tour around the world
and take my one-man band with me."

And just remember folks
that life is snivel a rehearsal.

So you better get start with it.

(Cheers) (Applause)

Thank you.

(Applause)

Thank you.

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